Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 5

‘Do give me one night’s lodging, and a little to eat and drink,’ said he to her, ‘or I shall starve.’

Who acts: little, darkness, I · What happens: give, eat, drink, say, starve · To what, where: lodging, me, light · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little, darkness, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 night	nummod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lodging	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 night	case
8	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eat	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eat	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drink	cc
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 eat	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 starve	punct
24	‘	‘	SYM	_	25 or	cc
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 starve	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 starve	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 starve	aux
28	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 starve	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 starve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	infinitive · do-support		one night's lodging	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lodging=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	a little			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	infinitive	a little not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	darkness		light	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	starve	shall	I			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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